Today I read over the announced titles and have to say I'm abit dissapointed. All of Sony's staple franchises are present but what about third parties? I remember reading that the MortalKombat team at Warner had gotten a dev kit for NGP late last year. I expected other developers and publishers had also been working with dev kits for some time.

When Nintendo revealed the 3DS they revealed a huge list of third party supporters and titles. I expected Sony to see this and counter attack having about a year more to prepare then Nintendo. Now yes I see Call Of Duty present and Monster Hunter. MH being one of the biggest franchises in Japan and CoD being one of the biggest in America but just having two of the most succesful 3rd party titles does not make up for such a shortfall.

Now an excuse might be that Sony and third parties are holding back on announcing titles till E3. However that theory would be full of flaws. First off 3DS launches in March long before E3. Sony would want to offset their launch by giving gamers a better line-up or at least biggest line-up possible at their show last night. Secondly E3 will likely be only a few months before the Japanese launch this winter, revealing other titles would be in their best interest right now.

So is this the line-up we can expect for NGP? Or is Sony actually holding out on us and keeping the 3rd party support a secret? Or are third parties simply not supporting NGP?

e3> a sony press conference.

if sony reveals titles its not going to do a thing to the 3ds launch. nitendo fans and casuals will still buy it.

psp2 will probably launch in japan in the winter e3 is enough for the reveals. we might also se some at gdc.

3rd parties supporting the device. Games will be revealed in time.

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Why are you comparing library that was now barely annouced to one that was slowly revelead over several months ?

And they had Capcom, Sega, Konami, Square Enix, Activision, Epic and we know EA had dev kits long ago (they were source of first leeks iirc)

i think the only major absence would be Ubisoft so far and honestly they can keep all the Imagine titles for 3DS all they want.

dude don't you think you're making a few too many threads before checking info? They did give a HUGE list of 3rd party who are working on games for the device. Check the PS meeting thread OP for the list (a bit cluttered since the source had it cluttered mind you)

there are GDC, E3, GC and TGS coming up before launch, they will show the games don't worry

Ugh... it was just revealed today for the first time... it won't launch till winter. There's GDC, E3, GC and TGS.

Nuff said.

This conference was to announce the PSP 2 basically, it was not to announce the game line-up, the publishers will do that at E3, and we will get release dates and prices then

What info did I not check in which threads?

Yes its true their is a list of studios with kits. Its a good and long list but that list does not nescessarily translate into games. Also I did mention Warner's studio that made the new Mortal Kombat they to have had a kit for awhile.

What I was getting at is for a press conference unvieling a new platform they sure didn't have the software to back it up. All we saw were mostly tech demo's showing it could run PS3 games. We did not see all that much new content except for the few Sony titles.

Also the day Nintendo revealed the 3DS they also made a huge list of titles in development availible and that same day leaked screens for several other titles. I thought Sony would do the same revealing quite a few titles, also since Sony had almost a year of time to prepare their presentation I thought their would be more confirmed third party titles present.

Also note I haven't been reading the official thread its a mess. I have been relying on Kotaku, IGN and GameSpot's live blog!

congratulations, you got the first anti  "NGP" thread post announcement. It's barely been announced and already we're worrying about support?

The whole event was to unveil the product and to let the world see what it's capable of and we did see that...fans got pretty much what they wanted on all fronts.

Unless this thread is about a prediction you are making, this is doom and gloom without knowing what's gonna happen. At least wait until we know of the games it will get (which we WILL know with the upcoming major events) before then these threads serve no purpose.

And Sony doesn't have to do everything the way Nintendo does it. I think you are caught up in that idea a bit too much. They will reveal things when they think best and so far so good.